python - Does creating separate functions instead of one big one slow processing time?

Question

I'm working in the Google App Engine environment and programming in Python. I am creating a function that essentially generates a random number/letter string and then stores to the memcache.

def generate_random_string():
# return a random 6-digit long string

def check_and_store_to_memcache():
    randomstring = generate_random_string()
    #check against memcache
    #if ok, then store key value with another value
    #if not ok, run generate_random_string() again and check again.

Does creating two functions instead of just one big one affect performance? I prefer two, as it better matches how I think, but don't mind combining them if that's "best practice".

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